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Originally Posted by curves2000
Although a lot of people were convinced something like this would happen to Prigozhin, does this mean that Putin has been able to re-install as much control and uniformity as before?
Has he played this as perfectly as he has over the years to this point? The reason why I ask this is because we have this narrative that he was losing control over things, infighting, threats of potential coup and new leadership etc. None of this has really materialized. He has gotten even more bolden with this.
Who really knows what's going on but this development seems to defuse certain risks within the Putin regime to him specifically with Wagner group slowly breaking up.
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I think the way he has been able to clean up Post-Coup leaves him in a much better state than he was pre-coup. That doesn’t mean he played well up to this point. It’s just he handled the point from the coup attempt to now successfully.
His invasion failing led him to have to rely on Wagner to maintain positions which increased Prigohzons power to the point his information people could be openly critical of the MoD. Putin was in a position that he could not just kill Prigozin to eliminate the threat pre-coup. His actions to stop Wagner and absorb it caused the coup.
Essentially for some reason Wagner stopped on the March to Moscow. Was it lack of support, schrewd negotiating, failure to get Nukes, something else, but Putin was able to survive the coup attempt and then able to dismantle Wagner.
One could probably argue that because defending your position take less troops than attacking he was able to make the Wagner forces redundant and therefore took away Prighozins power and that alone allowed Putin to be successful.